You know I love TherapyDoc, funny and thoughtful stuff about the therapists’ “party-line” concerning drinking, drugs and seduction.

“As far as your patients are concerned, You don’t drink, and you don’t use drugs, and you’ll probably live longer for it (you hope).Now, seduction is something we can talk about. Like drinking, it’s safest in moderation and at home with somebody you love, preferably a committed partner, not a blood relative. And talking in code is good, assuming both of you know the code, that is.”

Brain Power
Anne-Marie presents An Interview with Nordine Zouareg, author of Mind Over Body: The Key to Lasting Weight Loss Is All in Your Head posted at A Mama’s Rant.
Kendra presents Escaping ?Uterine Rupture? Fears posted at vbacadventure.com.
Caroline Latham presents Pattern Recognition Brain Teaser – The Empty Triangle posted at SharpBrains.
Meredith Mathews presents T spheres posted at Lemonade Stand.
Silicon Valley Blogger presents Cheap Ways To Learn And Feed Your Brain posted at The Digerati Life.
Exercise
therapydoc presents Alcohol and Your Therapy Doc posted at Everyone Needs Therapy.
Midnight Raider presents Weightlifting On Any Budget posted at Refrigerator Raid.
Lynda Lippin presents Pilates & Reiki In Paradise Blog: Supreme Pilates®–Be Very Afraid! posted at Pilates & Reiki In Paradise Blog.
baiguai presents Getting Off the Couch posted at Kung Fu Artistry.
Anmol Mehta presents Core Abdominal Power Yoga Exercises posted at Mastery of Meditation, Enlightenment & Kundalini Yoga.
Shane Magee presents Warming up before running or doing exercise. posted at Sri Chinmoy Races Blog.
April Kerr presents Improve your Immune System with Exercise posted at Natural Health Remedies.
Family
Tracee Sioux presents Second Generation Mean Girl posted at So Sioux Me.
Tracee Sioux presents Second Generation Mean Girl posted at So Sioux Me.
Grooming
Tracee Sioux presents Pur Perfection for Pregnancy Mask posted at Blog Fabulous.
Nutrition
Dean Carlson presents The 3 P’s of a Healthy Diet posted at New Hampshire Fitness Personal Trainer NH.
Be sure to tune in every Monday for the next Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog Carnival, and if you want to submit your own article for inclusion, click here before midnight (eastern time) on Sunday.

Post from: Blisstree

Fit-Buff Carnival

1. I was raised a Mormon Military Brat. We moved a lot, as a result I could pick up and go at any second. For a job or out of boredom I have sold everything I owed to relocate as an adult four times already. I am only 33-years-old.
2. I am a journalist by profession. I resent my previous employers for not allowing me to work from home when I became a mother. I am a writer and since the invention of e-mail there is really no reason to make me come to the newsroom 40 hrs a week. I think it’s “motherism” as my employer allowed a man to work out of his home but denied my request. I’ve not found my female employers any more supportive of working from home than my male bosses. But, I do resent them more.
3. I got married when I was 17-years-old. That was a stupid thing to do. I totally believe in divorce and thank God every day that by 19 I was smart enough not to make my childish mistake a permanent one. I didn’t marry again until 27.
4. After my child-bride experience I found that I was unwilling to change my name back to my father’s name and unwilling to keep my ex-husband’s name and unwilling to take any future husband’s name. I went to court and dropped all the last names that made my identity relational to the men in my life. I decided to have an identity that did not change with my marital status. My given name at birth was Tracee Sue and I thought Sioux would look better in print – well, I AM a writer so it DOES matter how marketable my name is. I was only 19 when I divorced so it seemed inevitable that I would eventually get married and have kids again. But, it did not seam reasonable at all to change my identity in any way, including my last name. So, I am Tracee Sioux. Legally now and forever. It is not a nom deplum – Sioux is my legal last name and it is who I am.
5. I witnessed 9-11 when I was 8 months pregnant with my first child. I was on my way to work. What strikes me now about the experience is that as a reporter my first instinct was to buy a disposable camera and report on it. I got a shot of the second plane hitting the building. I wasn’t close enough for anyone to buy the shot. The second thing that sticks with me is how worried I was that I was going to be late for work and how my boss might be annoyed with me – as if for the first few hours the shock was so complete that I didn’t understand the magnitude at all and went about my normal business like buying a chocolate donut.
6. I went to Lithuania after college to teach English, I wanted to travel and had been a political science major with an interest in the breakdown of the Soviet Union. Lithuania was a brand new democracy.
7. I’m grateful beyond belief for my current opportunity to work from home blogging. I feel like this is a “calling” for me. I’m pretty intensely spiritual about my So Sioux Me website and my work at b5media writing BlogFabulous to empower people and especially women. It’s my path, my personal legend, my way of being part of the soul of the world, my way to affect the collective consciousness.

So I’m tagging Therapydoc at Everyone Needs Therapy, Steve at Inside Fatherhood, Karen at Thrifty Mommy, Cory and Kerri at Marriage Actually, Kate at Babylune, Karen at Live the Power and Courtney at Courtney Tuttle. Consider yourselves Memed by Tracee Sioux at So Sioux Me and BlogFabulous.

Post from: Blisstree

I’ve Been Memed

I think every single person, at least in America, personally knows at least one person with an addiction issue. Be it food, prescription drugs, cigarettes, beer, cocaine, heroin or whatever it is that’s stiffling their inner pain.

My dirty little secret is appearing in a blog carnival about substance abuse. Also, our little Chantix support group is getting some play! All aboard on the Chantix train!

 Whether you are the addict or you know one you’ll find some good stuff on The Carnival of All Substances. It’s hosted by Therapydoc at Everyone Needs Therapy. Well, duh.

Post from: Blisstree

Know Any Addicts?